Part of the Good Systems Speaker Series. Nike has a long history of disability inclusion including supporting disabled athletes, hiring people with disabilities, and inventing cutting-edge adaptive clothing.

Presentations from faculty in the Maya Archaeology, Environment, and Religion & Planet Texas 2050: Bridging the Gaps in Resilience Research clusters.

New digital technologies in areas such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Mixed Reality (MR) are opening new opportunities for people with disabilities.

Quantitative social media research has traditionally been conducted from what might be called a platform-centric view, wherein researchers sample, collect, and analyzed data based on one or more topic- or user-specific keywords.

This three-day virtual workshop will bring together scholars and stakeholders for the purpose of building a community of practice focused on moving climate resilience research to action in the Gulf Region.

Most of the Web is published in languages not accessible to many potential users who can read and understand only their local languages. Previous Information Retrieval (IR) approaches, particularly those used in Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval (CLIR) and Multilingual Information Retrieval (MLIR), have focused on the translation of either queries or documents in the retrieval pipeline.

Many of our societal challenges from sustainability to democracy and community building will require our continued cooperation. With the prevalence of data rich digital technologies, this cooperation increasingly happens online where data-based feedback supports our decisions and people are often remote, asynchronous, and anonymous that has resulted in deindividuation and antinormative behavior.

Hear from faculty in the Global Internet, Media, and (Dis)Information and Good Systems: Building Technology Ethics Expertise clusters.

This panel is the fourth in Planet Texas 2050’s “resilience roundtable” series exploring various ideas and issues surrounding the City of Austin’s recently adopted Climate Equity Plan.

Planet Texas 2050’s spring research symposium takes place in April with a week of multiple presentation formats and opportunities for dialog and exchange. Resilience Research in Action highlights the work of Planet Texas 2050 project teams and partners, as well as that of other researchers and students exploring diverse and intersecting aspects of resilience.